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DPL Reading List – May 6, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. RAM And Sympathy (Thanks to Santi Murtagh for recommending this article) – “One annoyance with the new release is the increase in CPU capacity for Standard Edition, with no increase in RAM capacity. You can now have up to 24 cores…
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Visual Studio Team Services – Triggering A Build From A Build (Using PowerShell)
As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support starting multiple builds from one pull request trigger)….
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DPL Reading List – April 29, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “WebFonts are awesome and here to stay. However, if used improperly, they can also impose a huge performance penalty. In this post, I explain how…
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To Sass Or Not To Sass: Thoughts On Preprocessors
As with almost all subjects, there are plenty of opinions about CSS preprocessors. And if the internet is good for anything, it’s posting your opinions. Over the past few years, my opinions of preprocessors have fluctuated between “Whoa this is awesome!” to “They’re good, but…”. I currently sit somewhere in the middle where I feel…
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DPL Reading List – April 22, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Consider Offboarding: Letting Users Leave In Peace (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Obviously there’s no way to understand and quantify the users who simply never log in again, but for those users who are willing to go…
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DPL Reading List – April 15, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Google’s Parent Company Turns Up The Heat On Its Moonshots: Make Money Or Else (Thanks to Nate Lowry for recommending this article) – “Amid a cooling funding environment in Silicon Valley, even Google is entering a new age of “fiscal discipline,”…
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Why Accessibility Matters (To Me)
For a number of years, I’ve been following the topic of web accessibility. My interest began as a curiosity, a desire to better understand what it was and how to make it happen. Over the years, though, that curiosity has changed to a deep-seated need to understand and make better overall products. Before going any…
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DPL Reading List – April 8, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Linux Foundation And edX Offer Free Cloud Infrastructure MOOC (Thanks to Matt Babcock for recommending this article) – “Let’s be honest. Do you often feel like you really don’t know the cloud that well? I know I do, and I…
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DPL Reading List – April 1, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why B2B Companies Struggle With Collaborative Innovation (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this article) – “If companies are to succeed in collaborative innovation with a customer they need to avoid these traps by treating the workshop experience as a process,…
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Lab Reactions: Finding That Work/Life Balance
Chris gives us a two-fer, reacting to a couple articles about that ever-elusive work/life balance. “I feel fortunate to work for a company that lets me work hard but also allows me to do so in ways that best play to my strengths. The old adage of ‘slow and steady wins the race’ really resonates…
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